rclayton reviewed Witches Be Crazy by Logan Hunder
Witches Be Crazy
3 stars
A dying king seeks to marry off his daughter, establishing the quest. A stranger shows up telling of a neighboring kingdom destroyed by an evil queen that looks like the princess. Now the quest is either to marry the princess, or kill her. A irascible hero acquires an irritating side-kick and a wizardly antagonist. Diversions occur on the way to the palace, and the hero accrues a rag-tag entourage. The palace gained, the fight joined, the surprise revealed, and everything ends more or less according to plan.
This is a terrible book: poorly written, although the first line is good, promising way more than the rest of the book delivers; poorly plotted, veering among fantasy, adventure, horror, whatever's handy; with characters that are boring, or ridiculous, or offensive; and jokes that are at best dad-level (a character named Herrow appears, and soon after the Abbot and Costello bit unfurls to …
A dying king seeks to marry off his daughter, establishing the quest. A stranger shows up telling of a neighboring kingdom destroyed by an evil queen that looks like the princess. Now the quest is either to marry the princess, or kill her. A irascible hero acquires an irritating side-kick and a wizardly antagonist. Diversions occur on the way to the palace, and the hero accrues a rag-tag entourage. The palace gained, the fight joined, the surprise revealed, and everything ends more or less according to plan.
This is a terrible book: poorly written, although the first line is good, promising way more than the rest of the book delivers; poorly plotted, veering among fantasy, adventure, horror, whatever's handy; with characters that are boring, or ridiculous, or offensive; and jokes that are at best dad-level (a character named Herrow appears, and soon after the Abbot and Costello bit unfurls to no good affect).